U.S.:
Army Sends Infant to Protective Services,
Mom to Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail
U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson
with her son, Kamani.
Credit: Courtesy of Alexis Hutchinson
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VENTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS)
- U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being
threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy
to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time
to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.
Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter
Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was
placed into a county foster care system.
Hutchinson has been threatened with a court martial if she does not agree
to deploy to Afghanistan on Sunday, Nov. 15. She has been attempting to
find someone to take care of her child, Kamani, while she is deployed
overseas, but to no avail.
According to the family care plan of the U.S. Army, Hutchinson was allowed
to fly to California and leave her son with her mother, Angelique Hughes
of Oakland.
However, after a week of caring for the child, Hughes realised she was
unable to care for Kamani along with her other duties of caring for a
daughter with special needs, her ailing mother, and an ailing sister.
FULL STORY
I have an inkling that there's
a whole different under-tow to this story. The actual truth may be
substantially different. Anyway- "You've
come a long way, baby"* Feminism
demanded equality with men, and they've got it. Babies don't need
parents. State hatcheries
are just fine. The state needs soldiers for the "War
is Peace" program wherever in hell they are "peace-keeping"
now.
~And
who needs husbands and Daddies?~
Is
everybody happy with this schizophrenic
society?
*Virginia
Slims cigarettes were designed and marketed as a female-oriented
brand.... In the 1960s and 1970s, the themes of feminism and women's
liberation, with the slogan "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" were
often used in the ads
